Compare and Contrast College Monday Instructions

1. Go to http://www.michigan.gov/mistudentaid/ and download the

Michigan Postsecondary Handbook.
2. You may also use the colleges websites to complete this task.
3. Saginaw Valley State University and Mid Michigan Community College are the two colleges
you will be comparing and contrasting.
4. Select 15 different categories that you want to compare. You can create specific categories
that fit your needs or you can use categories presented on the College Monday Worksheets.
Possible ideas are listed below:
Location (make sure to provide detailed directions and how long it takes to get there)
Tuition
Programs Offered
Freshman rules
Faculty and Staff
5. The final step is a summarization portion. Please explain at least three aspects you found
similar between these two colleges and three aspects you found different.
6. When you are finished, you can either email this document to me or print your form and turn
it into the box. Make sure you put your name on it!

DUE: Tuesday, December 2nd

An example of what your document could look like:
Saginaw Valley State University

Mid Michigan Community College

1.Expensive
2.Bigger class sizes
3.Red
4.More sports
5.More kids on campus
6.Rooms on campus
7.shorter drive
8.Bigger campus
9.Closer to a big city
10.better grades
11.Better scholarships
12.More freshman laws
13. Have to live on campus
14.Can have a car

Cheap
Smaller class size
Blue
Less sports
Less kids
You dont have to stay on campus
Longer Drive
small campus
in a wooded area
not as good of grades
not as good scholarships
not as many freshman laws
Dont have to
can have a car

15. Better class size

smaller class size

Summary: SVSU and Mid Michigan Community College are similar, because
These two colleges are pretty similar, they both give us education, and they like to charge us a
cost to go to these colleges. They both are a pretty decent.